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Media Matters with Bob McChesney

Media Matters featured host Bob McChesney in conversation with a variety of guests. The program ended production with the Oct. 7, 2012, show. McChesney is a professor of communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Steven Hill and Dan Johnson-Weinberger from the Center for Voting And Democracy, a West Coast non-profit that educates the public on the impact of voting systems on political representation, proportional representation, voter turnout, redistricting and campaign finance

Shelby Scott and Linda Foley -- Shelby Scott is the former National President of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, and served as chair of AFTRA's Women's Committee and of its Broadcast Steering Committee. Linda Foley is president of the Newspaper Guild, Communications Workers of America. She was elected secretary-treasurer of the Guild in 1993 and Guild President in 1995.

Norman Solomon, executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, a nationwide consortium of public-policy researchers. He is the author of "Media Beat," a nationally syndicated column on media and politics that appears in the San Francisco Examiner and other daily newspapers

Dan Schiller, professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and author of five books on communications, discussing the meltdown of the US telecommunications industry, why it happened, what it means, and where it's going.